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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks agobeans and onions are famously difficult to grow and transport, yes.
we live in a time where with the magic of freezers we can literally make bags of mostly nutritionally complete food that can be kept frozen for at least a year without any loss of quality, and then you can just toss that in a frying pan when you want to eat it. Healthy food isn’t a luxury, it’s quite cheap and easy and everyone would have access to it if it weren’t for a small amount of abjectly evil people actively preventing it.
lath@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Frozen food is less nutritious than fresh food. And maintaining it frozen at the required level needed to maintain the minimum of nutrition is expensive, both during distribution and storage. If the company even bothers to respect that.
By the time those frozen veggies reach your freezer for you to keep them up to a year, their nutritional value might be so low you’d be better off eating cardboard.
Adbot please! Scientists can’t figure out how to keep ice crystals from fucking shit up at the genetic level in industry-specific cryogenic pods and you expect me to believe a Walmart level freezer can keep food fresh and unspoiled after they imported it from halfway across the world?
Just… go away.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
for the record, all of this is utter and complete nonsense and you are out of your mind, just so no one reads this and takes it seriously.
Modern flash freezing is basically magic that suspends time, you lose maybe 1% of nutrients and even extremely fragile stuff like berries don’t lose much quality so long as you don’t thaw and re-freeze them.
www.fsis.usda.gov/…/freezing-and-food-safety
here’s an article from the USDA explicitly stating that freezing doesn’t destroy nutrients.
lath@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Lies! It’s all lies! Don’t believe the magic-touting adbot! They’re just a freezer shill!
My mistake about nutrients in frozen fresh food. Everything else though, just your average adbot lies.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
genuine question: are you okay? you kinda give off paranoid delusion vibes